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Trump said people participating in protests in Los Angeles will not be allowed to wear masks and praised the National Guard for “a job well done” after deploying them to the city to settle the protests.

“These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED,” he wrote on Truth Social early Sunday morning. “Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???”

  • Cousin Mose
    309•1 month ago

    …yet it’s perfectly fine when the federal agents wear masks and/or fail to identify themselves. Fucking hypocrites.

    • flandish
      92•1 month ago

      reminder: if they do not identify THEY ARE KIDNAPPING YOU. Respond as you would during a real kidnapping. BECAUSE YOU ARE IN ONE.

      • @ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
        38•1 month ago

        If you attack them the law is on their side even if they don’t identify themselves:

        [18 U.S. Code] Section 111 makes it a crime to “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with” federal officials engaged in their duties. But here’s the problem: You don’t even need to know they’re federal officials. You can be convicted for shoving someone you think is just someone yelling in your face, even just placing them in “reasonable fear of harm” without physical contact—if they turn out to be a plainclothes agent. That’s not hypothetical. That’s precedent, courtesy of the Supreme Court over 50 years ago.

        Which means this: An undercover agent embedded in a protest, a public meeting, even a constituent town hall could claim to have been “impeded,” and the federal government can treat that moment as a federal crime. Under the current administration’s appetite for authoritarianism, that’s not a loophole, it’s a feature.

        • flandish
          26•1 month ago

          yep. and yet people still claim we are not a fascist state.

        • @Furbag@lemmy.world
          15•1 month ago

          If enough of the fascist fucks get their heads blown off trying to kidnap people, they’ll start identifying themselves.

          Arm up if you haven’t already.

        • BakkodaEnglish
          7•1 month ago

          Except now you can question the legality of official duties. Violating constitutional rights cannot be official duties. I’m not saying you are gonna win this one but a handful of ICE officers getting a blanket party trying to violate due process is a quagmire at best.